Swap drive not operating correctly
- by Blue Ice
At first, I started seeing the warning signs. The halting pages. The molasses speed of the windows closing. The pictures not rendering. Then, I took action.
Recently I added a swap drive to my computer.
For a while, everything was good. Unicorns frolicked among the new bits and bytes resplendent on the shiny metal platter known as my swap drive.
Today, I opened Chromium, and got on the 7th tab (start.csail.mit.edu) "He's dead, Jim!". This used to happen before I added my swap drive, but now I thought that it wouldn't happen because I added more memory.
I fear for the safety of the unicorns. Please help me make my swap drive work again.
As a side note, here is the result of cat /proc/swaps:
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda5 partition 39075836 213896 -1
Result of free:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 507472 330792 176680 0 6208 71252
-/+ buffers/cache: 253332 254140
Result of df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 147G 8.9G 130G 7% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 240M 12K 240M 1% /dev
tmpfs 50M 824K 49M 2% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 248M 208K 248M 1% /run/shm
none 100M 20K 100M 1% /run/user
